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DRAFT<br />

all FAIR accelerators will be a Global Positioning System (GPS) time receiver to which the GMT<br />

event transmission and the BuTiS clock trains will be synchronized and phase locked.<br />

The outline of the GMT system is shown in Figure 2.4.140. For each of the FAIR machines a<br />

dedicated timing event generator (EVG) generates all timing signals utilizing internal counters,<br />

event sequencers and hardware inputs. The EGV broadcasts information about the beam to be<br />

handled next and is pre-loaded with an event table for cycles or beam manipulation phases. Alternative<br />

event tables are supported to handle abort of beams even during run-time of a cycle. In<br />

addition to timing events other meta-information (e.g. accelerator cycle identifier, context and<br />

safe-beam flags) can be transmitted or broadcasted.<br />

A<br />

ACC A<br />

ACC B<br />

ACC C<br />

Master event generator<br />

EXP 1<br />

EXP 2<br />

Event generator A Event generator B Event Generator generator Generator generator C<br />

C<br />

Timing network<br />

B<br />

Event-stream concentrator<br />

Figure 2.4.140: Structure and topology of the general machine timing (GMT).<br />

A master cycle sequencer (MCS) will coordinate beams and cycles throughout the FAIR accelerators.<br />

It will orchestrate and synchronize every single machine EVG, establish a pattern of beams<br />

featuring a high level of truly parallel operation, take care of general restrictions, and will be able to<br />

handle alternative beam delivery scenarios in case of emergency or non-availability machines in<br />

the accelerator chain. The timing telegrams of all EVG and the MCS will be concentrated such that<br />

all information is available at any timing receiver in the facility.<br />

Event receivers (EVR) decode the event stream and provide hardware outputs or software interrupts<br />

based on event information. The EVR has a synchronized local clock such that data can be<br />

time-stamped to the microsecond level. EVR shall be available in all relevant form factors such as<br />

VME, PMC, cPCI as well as an integrated module for the FAIR standard device controller.<br />

Propagation and transmission delays will be compensated in the EVR in order to achieve synchronous<br />

event reception all over the facility.<br />

The upstream channel of the GMT system can be used to synchronously and deterministically<br />

exchange short telegrams between dedicated devices as is needed e.g. for bunch-to-bucket transfer.<br />

It is being investigated whether the upstream communication will be also used to gather interlock<br />

and safety-critical state information from the device level.<br />

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